Word: brotherism
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...exciting enough when it happens to your own car; when it happens to the world, it makes you downright giddy. Baghdad April 21, 2003 Ali [Ismail Abbas] recounted how one night, just after midnight, a missile dropped from the sky onto the home where he and his mother, stepfather, brother and six sisters were sleeping. "The house collapsed," he says. "My mother was dead, my stepfather was dead, my brother, dead. My mother was pregnant." Ali believes some of his sisters may have escaped. As a result of his burns, Ali is suffering from septicemia, which is spreading toxic bacteria...
...journeyed with a group rescuing prostitutes to a tiny Nepali village, where mothers were warned that the adolescent daughters they thought they were sending to jobs in the city were actually being sold into the sex trade. In many cases, it transpired, a family member--a brother, a father or an uncle--had made the sale...
...House, smells of "spices and cooking oil, perfume and cigarette smoke," her novel has several scents, some lovely, some harsh. Having had success with self-mutilation and prostitution, she's taking on a less physical anguish in her next novel. It's about a 15-year-old girl whose brother is killed in Iraq. Awards committees, take note...
...Prestige, which he co-wrote with his brother, Jonathan, presents us with two magicians, at first friends but soon enough deadly rivals: Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman), slick and romantically appealing, is a master of on-stage presentation; Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) is his technical superior, but nowhere near so commanding a figure in the theater. One night something goes terribly wrong with their act (an assistant who happens also to be Angier's lover dies) and Borden is convicted of murder and languishes in jail, waiting to be hanged. Meanwhile, the radically deranged Angier seeks out a real historical figure...
Whether or not the film is more about magic or technology is just one of its many vagaries. The narrative’s general haziness is, in part, dictated by its screenplay (adapted from Christopher Priest’s 1995 novel, by Nolan and his brother Jonathan Nolan) but Nolan’s customary technique of cutting back and forth in time—made famous by its success in “Memento”—contributes to the muddling of his messages here. This style creates captivating suspense and intrigue at times in both films...